STILLING, JAKOB:

German ophthalmologist; born at Cassel Sept. 22, 1842; son of Benedikt Stilling. He studied at the universities of Marburg (M.D. 1865), Würzburg, Berlin, and Paris, and in 1867 established himself as ophthalmologist in his native city. In 1880 he was admitted as privat-docent of ophthalmology to the medical faculty of the University of Strasburg, where in 1884 he was appointed assistant professor.